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NASA's IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
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Scientists using NASA's IXPE observatory have observed a magnetar exhibiting behavior consistent with the 90-year-old theory of vacuum birefringence. This phenomenon suggests that extreme magnetic fields can alter the vacuum of space, causing it to act like a lens for light.
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature .
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